On Sat, Sep 5, 2020 at 12:37 AM Ivan Pozdeev via Python-Dev < python-dev@python.org> wrote:
> As I wrote in > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25337706/setuptools-vs-distutils-why-is-distutils-still-a-thing/40176290#40176290, > > distutils has a responsibility that setuptools as a 3rd-party entity > cannot fulfill -- to set the core standards for addon modules structure > and interface and be guaranteed to be present and compatible with the > Python distribution that it comes with. > > If you are going to remove distutils, something else will need to fulfill > these goals. Obviously, the "something else" is setuptools, which has filled that niche for well over a decade now, and shows no signs of going away anytime soon. Maybe someday there might be a PEP 517 challenger, but for now, setuptools isn't going anywhere even if distutils goes away.
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